Funding you could be eligible for:
$3,000 or more.
(a lot more if you apply to our Service Fellowships)

If you have at least one Jewish grandparent and are between 18 and 31 years old, you could be eligible for considerable funding assistance. (Check out some examples below.)

Apply for either of our more selective service fellowships and, once accepted, the only cost to you will be a $1000 deposit that holds your placement. In return, you'll get funding for roundtrip airfare and housing, as well as a $250 per month stipend. The best part? Once your deposit is returned, the entire 10-month program ends up costing you nothing! (More detail below.)

Our Service Fellowships

If you're interested in serving communities in need through your interest in Education, then you may want to consider one of our two Service Fellowships.

The Adult Education Intern will assist in all aspects of the African Refugee Development Center’s (ARDC) English and Hebrew education programs for adult refugees and asylum seekers, from teaching and tutoring to managing the program.

The intern’s daily tasks will include:
-Teaching group English language classes
-Tutoring students in English
-Welcoming and registering new students
-Helping manage the center
-Coordinating class and tutoring schedules

Interns fluent in Hebrew may choose to teach and tutor in Hebrew.

Qualifications:
-Fluent in English, native speaker preferred

The African Refugee Development Center (ARDC) is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 by refugees and Israeli citizens to assist, support, and empower refugees and asylum seekers in Israel. The ARDC seeks to ensure access to basic social services, and to facilitate refugee and asylum seeker integration, self-sufficiency and ownership in matters affecting their lives. The ARDC advocates for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and for a humane and fair Israeli asylum policy.

Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) is an international non-profit organization which provides life-saving cardiac care to children from developing countries, and offers comprehensive training to medical professionals from these countries.

Position Description:

Public relations, marketing, fundraising, working with the children, and working with group visits and special events.

The Higher Education Case Manager will work with clients interested in pursing university degrees, vocational and/or technical training, and scholarships. Each caseworker has a caseload of about 10-20 clients and will continuously work with schools in Israel, abroad and online.

More specifically, the intern will be tasked with:
-Facilitating the application process by advising students in finding programs in Israel and abroad suited to their needs and interests
-Helping organize and arrange necessary document verification and tests
-Locating and secure scholarship funds for students
-Maintaining communication with alumni clients to ensure success and respond to any challenges
-Facilitating new partnerships with schools and embassies to strengthen the ARDC’s higher education program

Qualifications:
-Comfortable working with refugees and asylum seekers from a variety of backgrounds, including those with limited formal education and/or literacy skills
-Fluent English is mandatory, Hebrew is an advantage
-Ability to adapt to changing situations, comfortable working in a fast-paced, demanding environment
-Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
-Responsible, flexible, and dedicated

The African Refugee Development Center (ARDC) is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 by refugees and Israeli citizens to assist, support, and empower refugees and asylum seekers in Israel. The ARDC seeks to ensure access to basic social services, and to facilitate refugee and asylum seeker integration, self-sufficiency and ownership in matters affecting their lives. The ARDC advocates for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and for a humane and fair Israeli asylum policy.

The Shalom Hartman Institute (SHI) seeks an iEngage Fellow to liaise with the research and communications team to get The Engaging Israel Project message out through traditional and new media and work on strategic marketing and development for other SHI programs.

Areas of Responsibility include:
-Research specific topics for various iEngage publications
-Assist with collecting, organizing, and editing written materials to be published
-Development of strategic PR and social media campaigns to highlight iEngage and SHI work
-Draft press releases and outreach to media outlets
-Assist in production of iEngage and New Paths curricula such as video and sourcebook production
-Liaise between the researchers and the media team

Qualifications:
-Fluent in English
-Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences/Humanities
-Strong research, writing, and editing skills
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills
-Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, including ability to multi-task
-Excellent computer skills, including MS Suite and database
-Experience in logistical aspects of program planning (preferred)
-Working knowledge of social media
-Working knowledge of North American Jewry and Jewish organizations (advantage)

The Shalom Hartman Institute is a transformative center for thinking and teaching that believes in the power of ideas to bring change. Often consulted for advice by the leading figures in Israeli society and North American Jewry, the Shalom Hartman Institute is the leader in quality, ideas-based Jewish learning. SHI provides programming for a host of institutions throughout Israeli and North American society, including the Israeli secular school system, the IDF, numerous municipalities, and synagogues throughout the world.

In recent years, SHI harnessed its successful ideas-based programming to address the discourse on Israel in North America and created the iEngage Project. The goal of the iEngage Project is to respond to growing feelings of disenchantment and disinterest toward Israel among an ever-increasing number of Jews worldwide by creating a new narrative regarding the significance of Israel for Jewish life. This narrative will serve as a foundation for a new covenant between Israel and world Jewry, elevating the existing discourse from one with a crisis-based focus to one rooted in Jewish values and ideas.

Please note: Israel Government Fellows does not conduct their internship placement process until all participants have been formally accepted. For this reason, IGF cannot guarantee applicants a particular internship position prior to their acceptance. However, the placement process is influenced primarily by participants’ preferences.

This organization provides humanitarian aid and advocacy to African refugees seeking asylum in Israel. The organization runs two shelters in Tel Aviv for the refuges and provides them with direct service, legal aid and education. They aim to raise awareness of the plight of the refugees and assist them.

Scope of Position:

Higher Education Caseworkers work with clients interested in pursing university degrees, vocational and/or technical training, and scholarships. Each caseworker has a caseload of about 30 clients and will continuously work with schools in Israel, abroad and online.

Main Responsibilities:

• Facilitate the application process by advising students in finding programs in Israel and abroad suited to their needs and interests

• Help organize and arrange necessary document verification and tests

• Locate and secure scholarship funds for students

• Maintain communication with alumni clients to ensure success and respond to any challenges

• Facilitate new partnerships with schools and embassies to strengthen the Higher Education program

Natan- International Humanitarian Aid is as a network of Israeli humanitarian disaster relief organizations and civil society organizations working together to assist communities facing humanitarian crisis and disasters. Natan’s current mission is providing education, medical aid, psycho-social assistance and community action to some of the thousands of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran who have been flowing into Europe from different points on the globe.

Job Description of Trainee:

◦ Be part of writing the organisational strategy, growth strategy, finding partnerships

◦ Plan approaches and pitches.

* Work with team to develop proposals that speaks to the client’s needs, concerns, and objectives.

Training required:We are looking for independent young adults who can think outside the box and dream big.

The Therapy and Rehabilitation Intern will work with special needs children in a variety of therapeutic and educational environments to help them reach their potential. The intern will work in the center’s day program and assist physical, occupational and speech therapists, as well as nutritionists.

Qualifications:
-Interest in the field and desire to work with children with special needs
-Background in specific para health therapy advantageous

The Israel Sport Center for the Disabled is one of the world pioneers in the field of sports rehabilitation. The Center opened its gates in 1960 and specializes in the physical and psychological rehabilitation of children and youth. For more than fifty years, our remarkable staff and volunteers have encouraged the disabled to participate in a variety of sports activities and to benefit from the countless ways in which sports is healing.

The spirit and motivation of sport is used to help guide the disabled from a state of helplessness to productive, fulfilling lives. Sports activities contribute more to the confidence, morale, and self-image of the disabled than any other form of rehabilitation. For more than 50 years, the Center’s sports activities have proven to prolong life expectancy of the seriously disabled. Today, more than 3,000 kids and adults participate in 20 different sports activities without discrimination of religion, race, or ethnicity.

Israel Tennis Centers‘ PR and Communications Intern, will be responsible for much of the organization’s English language publicity and social media.

The intern’s tasks will include:
-Social media management
-Translating and posting all Hebrew web content to the English site
-Translating other Hebrew documents into English as needed
-Writing all English news articles and blog posts
-Creating a news archive section on the organization’s website
-Attending and/or photographing tournaments, presentations, ceremonies, events, etc.
-Editing and reformatting photos as needed
-Social Media Management

The Israel Tennis Center (ITC), a non–profit organization, has worked for 35 years to enhance the social, psychological, and physical development of Israeli youth through the medium of sport. The center provides a healthy and structured environment for children from all walks of life, teach values of cooperation, self reliance and persistence, and provide opportunities for every child to reach his or her own level of excellence.

To meet its goals and aspirations, the Israel Tennis Center operates 14 centers complete with cutting edge courts and facilities, and caters to 21,000 children each week. Most of Centers are located in disadvantaged neighborhoods or outlying development towns throughout Israel, from Kiryat Shmona on the Lebanese border in the North to Beer Sheva bordering the Negev Desert in the South.

Tiny Toes Play School seeks an Educator and Classroom Support Assistant.

Responsibilities:

Support in the classroom

Lesson planning with the teachers

Provide stimulating education experience

Qualifications:

Classroom experience

Completed or currently studying Bachelors degree in child care or education

About the school:

Tiny Toes Play School provides a stimulating curriculum using developmentally appropriate materials, within a safe, secure environment. The goal is to encourage children to develop socially, physically, emotionally and intellectually with a hands- on, creative approach.

The African Refugee Development Center, founded in 2004 by asylum seekers and Israeli citizens, is a non-profit organization created to assist, support and empower African refugees and African asylum seekers in Israel.

The ARDC advocates for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and for a humane and fair Israeli asylum policy. The ARDC divides its work between individual counseling, humanitarian aid, education, community development, awareness raising and policy initiatives.

Volunteer Opportunities:

Welcome Helpline Support: Inform, assist and refer refugees in issues related to asylum procedure, health, housing, employment, education, and social and psychological care.
Shelter “care worker”: Provide practical and emotional assistance to families living in ARDC’s shelters.
English and Hebrew teacher/tutor: Conduct English or Hebrew group classes or one-on-one tutoring for refugee adults.

Education center site-manager: Welcome and register new refugee students, help manage the center, and coordinate the class schedule.

This organization provides humanitarian aid and advocacy to African refugees seeking asylum in Israel. The organization runs two shelters in Tel Aviv for the refuges and provides them with direct service, legal aid and education. They aim to raise awareness of the plight of the refugees and assist them.

Job Description of Trainee:

Scope of Position: The Education Programs Coordinator oversees the English and Hebrew classes offered in the evenings at ARDC and all tutoring activities. He/She acts as the main ARDC contact for teachers and students, manages curriculum development and the monitoring and evaluation of student progress.

Main Responsibilities:

Recruit and train English and Hebrew teachers and tutors. Act as a resource for teachers and tutors.

Evaluate student’s English and Hebrew levels (materials provided)

Develop and maintain data and monitoring and evaluation systems for semester. Complete a report monthly.

Act as the liaison between the education programs and the greater organization

Manage all existing education programs and develop new programs when appropriate Skills, Knowledge.

Abilities:

Comfortable working with refugees and asylum seekers from a variety of backgrounds, including those with limited formal education and/or literacy skills

Fluent English is mandatory, Hebrew is an advantage

Ability to adapt to changing situations, comfortable working in a fast-paced, demanding environment

Responsible, flexible, and dedicated

PASSIONATE ABOUT EDUCATION! 35 hours per week.

Training required:

Background in sociology or social sciences is preferable, fundraising, or if possible website development. French and Arabic are an advantage (as refugees speak French, Arabic and/or English as well as many other languages).

MAI seeks an International Business Development Intern to work in several diverse roles to help facilitate collaboration between different business networks within Israel and between Israeli and foreign enterprises.

Responsibilities:

Initiate cooperation between Israeli and worldwide enterprises

Advise and assist manufacturers in formulating and implementing marketing strategies, business development tactics, performing market research and creating business relations with suitable partners

Establish relations with commercial and economic attaché, government institutions- coordinate access to international projects, tenders, and funding programs

Produce and host international business delegations and seminars, organize B2B meetings and lead network sessions

Promote industry-academia cooperation by defining the needs of the industrial sectors and developing knowledge-sharing tools

Compose speeches and prepare presentations for the association’s executives; lecture at international business conferences and receptions

Qualifications:

Background in Economics/ International relations/ Business management/ Trade

Excellent English skills

About the organization:

The Manufacturers Association of Israel, located in Tel Aviv, is the representative body of all industrial sectors in Israel: private, public, kibbutz and government industries. It consists of more than 2,000 organizations and industrial factories which are responsible for more than 95% of the industrial production in Israel.

The Jaffa Institute seeks an After-school Counselor Intern to work closely with the educational and therapeutic staff to provide the children with nutritional, therapeutic, academic, and recreational support.

Responsibilities:

Facilitating recreational activities with the children during the year or during the Summer Camp program

Assisting staff to create and develop activities for the children

Helping children with their homework and giving them personal attention

Providing the children with general support as needed

Qualifications:

Experience working with children

Basic Hebrew

About the organization:

The Jaffa Institute was established in 1982 as a private, non-profit, multi-service social agency to assist the city of Jaffa’s severely disadvantaged children and their families. Their mission is to provide educational, nutritional, therapeutic, and social enrichment programs that assist children in developing positive attitudes and skills to break the cycle of inter-generational poverty in the impoverished communities of Jaffa, South Tel Aviv, and Bat Yam in Israel.

Residing in poverty stricken neighborhoods where the majority of parents and caregivers are unemployed, these children are physically and emotionally undernourished and too often suffer from neglect and/or abuse. Violence, crime, and poverty are the norm and what these children can expect for their futures, in the absence of intervention.

The dangerous elements of street life penetrate into this void, luring children with promises of belonging, acceptance, fitting in and being loved. Once a child has left school for the streets, it is very difficult to bring them back. This organization is working to create a new reality for thousands of these underprivileged children.

The Education Intern will have the opportunity to work with children from infancy to age 13. The intern will also work on the administrative side of the organization.

The intern’s tasks will include:
-Working with a mixed age group of children based on interest and where s/he is most needed
-Working as an assistant to classroom teachers
-Planning and leading educational programs, morning meetings, physical activity and all around enriching the learning environment.
-Assisting CityKids Director with newsletters, logistics, and event planning

CityKids is all-in-one education and play space for families with children newborn-13 years old. We have a nursery school with two locations for children ages one to four, a library with over 1,500 of our children’s favorite English books and we offer a variety of classes from English to art, music to movement all taught by highly qualified teachers by our an official English curriculum. We strive each moment of every day to be the ultimate safe, clean and fun English speaking resource for Tel Aviv families to gather, learn, socialize and play.

This is the leading Holocaust Museum and research center in the world. Working in the English Education department.

Job Description of Trainee:

Interns will assist the staff to prepare for and conduct scholarly programs such as seminars, symposia, panel presentations, and campus outreach visits designed to strengthen Holocaust teaching in Jewish Educational Institutions around the world and serve as venues for the presentation of new research in the field of Holocaust studies. An intern may provide research assistance for occasional papers, publications and other projects.

The Classroom Assistant will gain a well rounded special needs classroom experience.

Daily duties involve :
-Welcoming the students in the morning
-Interacting and playing with the children
-Assisting the children with meal time
-Doing activities with the children
-Preparing the children to go home.

Other responsibilities may include setting up the sensory room, giving games out to the children, and other tasks.

Requirements :
-Assistant must be a pre-med, nursing, or education student
-Must be responsible and have patience for children with special needs
-Knowledge of basic Hebrew

Connected to Chimes: This organization’s mission is to improve the quality of life of people with developmental disabilities, such as Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, physical/emotional disabilities and autism, and work towards their complete integration into the community. They operate 15 different programs for these special citizens, providing services regardless of religion, gender, age or ethnicity.

Job Description of Trainee:

The children are 1-3 years old. The intern will Help the teachers in the classroom, at speech therapy sessions, OT/PT, and play with the kids.

Sample internship schedule:

Therapist comes in once a week for each kid. intern has opportunity to work with them once a week and then implement what they learned with the kids they work with.

Work hours:8:30am – 12:30

Training required:

Must love kids! Must love to learn and have patience, have a want to learn language and gestures and have an open mind. Hebrew is not required, but very helpful.

The Marketing Intern will be tasked with the creation and design, as well as the implementation, of social marketing campaigns.

The ideal candidate is a team player with a great work ethic and open mind.

GradTrain is an online platform for past, present, and future international students. They provide data tools, mentoring and a global community in order to maximize their success as international applicants and students.

The English Assistant will work with underprivileged students from Jaffa and South Tel Aviv who participate in The Jaffa Institute’s after school enrichment programs.

The Jaffa Institute was established in 1982 as a private, non-profit, multi-service social agency to assist the Jaffa area’s severely disadvantaged children and their families. Our mission is to provide educational, recreational and social enrichment programs which enhance the self-esteem and academic performance of each child in our care, thereby enabling them to succeed academically and break the cycle of intergenerational poverty into which they were born. Through over 30 different initiatives our programs reach 4,000 citizens annually.

This organization is a private, non-profit, multi-service social agency to create a new reality for thousands of underprivileged Israeli children from Jaffa, South Tel Aviv and Bat Yam. Residing in poverty stricken neighborhoods where the majority of parents and caregivers are unemployed, these children are physically and emotionally undernourished and too often suffer from neglect and/or abuse. Violence, crime, and poverty are the norm and what these children can expect for their futures, unless intervention is taken. Into this void penetrate the dangerous elements of the street life, luring children with promises of belonging and acceptance of fitting in and being loved. Once a child has left school for the streets, it is very difficult to bring them back.

Job Description of Trainee:

Love working with children? Looking for a fun way to learn about Israel’s at-risk populations? The Jaffa Institute is looking for dedicated interns to work with underprivileged children, ages 4-12, in our after-school centers in South Tel Aviv! Interns will work closely with our educational and therapeutic staff to provide the children with nutritional, therapeutic, academic, and recreational support.

Specifically, interns will be responsible for:

• Facilitating recreational activities with the children during the year and during the Summer Camp program

• Assisting staff to create and develop activities for the children

• Helping children with their homework and giving children personal attention

• Providing the children with general support as needed.

Training required:

Our ideal intern:

• Loves children

• Has a background working with children (with at-risk children is a plus)

Qualifications:
-Basic Hebrew required
-Degree in Pyschology, Social Work, or Childhood Development
-Experience in childcare

The Association for Children at Risk was founded in 1990 in order to meet the basic needs of children at risk and their families; to diagnose, identify and prevent developmental risk factors in children and to create national multi-professional intervention models in developmental disorders.

Join the incredible SHALVA Jerusalem staff as they change the lives of hundreds of students with special needs. The Classroom and Therapy Assitant will assist in the day care center and shadow the therapists as they work with the children.

Experience or background in education, special needs, and/or medicine is required.

SHALVA: The Associate for Mentally & Physically Challenged Children in Israel was founded in May of 1990 by Kalman and Malki Samuels. Their own experience with the challenge of raising a child with special needs, coupled with a strong desire to help families in similar situations, was the inspiration behind the creation of SHALVA. Believing that the care of children with special needs should not be left to the family alone, Malki and Kalman endeavored to create a therapeutic environment in which children with special needs could thrive and grow. From humble beginnings, today SHALVA has become a leader in the field of disability awareness and intervention in the Middle East.

The organization’s mission is to help impoverished children and youth to realize their full potential. In addition to providing educational enrichment programs, the Institute supports the physical and emotional welfare of the children as they transition through the years. Our programs offer a holistic therapeutic approach, providing tools that allow each child to develop and flourish in their own individual way. From food and tutoring assistance to emotional counseling, art therapies and preventative health care, we provide the necessary elements for a safe and secure childhood.

Job Description of Trainee: The internship offers prospective applicants the opportunity to learn the foundations of nonprofit fundraising and gain a competitive edge in the nonprofit field all while helping Israel’s most impoverished receive vital educational and social services. While he/she will primarily work on researching new potential donor foundations and drafting letters of inquiry, the intern will be immersed in all aspects of the Jaffa Institute’s development program, including composing newsletters, updating the Institute’s website, and hosting donors on site visits. Interns will: work with the development team to draft proposals and letters of inquiry to foundations create press releases and newsletters learn how to develop a foundation fundraising strategy research foundation prospects, determine a foundations interests and find a match within the Jaffa Institute’s range of programming. assist in updating the Institute’s website participate in hosting donors at our various program sites with the Visits Coordinator

Sample internship schedule: 9-1pm: Engage in research activities, draft letters of inquiry, help with website, newsletters etc. 2-4 pm: Help with sites visiting. Helping visitors to volunteer and understand more about the organization (the site visits are not every day and the times vary) 4-5pm: Continue helping in the daily activities of the fundraising department.

Training required:

Interns should: have an interest in development and fundraising, particularly within a non-profit environment be committed to advancing equality through education in low-income neighborhoods exhibit outstanding verbal and written communication skills have excellent computer skills, including, but not limited to, solid knowledge of Microsoft Office possess knowledge of internet and/or library resources for research employ strategic and creative thinking as well as the ability to multi-task.

As an English Tutor at Hand in Hand, you will help English teachers in the classroom and work with students individually and/or in small groups. The intern will also have the opportunity to help the school on a more administrative level and write articles about the school.

Ideal candidates must like children and have a passion for education and coexistence.

Our Mission at Hand in Hand is to create a strong, inclusive, shared society in Israel through a network of Jewish-Arab integrated bilingual schools and organized communities.

Jews and Arabs – learning together, living together – and inspiring broad support for social inclusion and civic equality in Israel.

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